School: Baile na Cille, Roscrea (roll number 10350)
- Location:
- Ballynakill, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: F. Bergin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0548, Page 068
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Baile na Cille, Roscrea
- XML Page 068
- XML “Travelling Folk”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- At the present time travellers call to our home. Some of these have been doing so for many years.
Gypsies sell lace and tell fortunes. The tinkers sell tin ware, and the pedlars sell lace, needles, thread. Most people buy from them especially those who live in the country. A lot of them get the things they sell in the local towns.
The old travellers who have been coming to the district for many years are welcome but the new ones are not.
No traveller stays in any of the houses any night. They only call for people to buy some of their stuff and alms. If they call at meal times they get food.
Most of the travellers
